RE: Atheism and Purpose
August 8, 2010 at 12:22 am
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2010 at 12:41 am by Edward the Theist.)
To the people who think I'm an idiot and incapable of critical thinking. I hope you don't expect me to respond to your questions from here on out. I find your insults hypocritical to say the least, as you have begged me to be hyper-respectful of you and your opinions and your beliefs.
As for these reputation points. If they are meant to be a way you can all get together and ban me from your group after I collect enough of them, by all means just do it now. I think it's pathetic, but I'm actually a little proud of being in the red.
Actually, I fully expect to be banned. I don't know why you'd want me in here anyway. It used to be all about debate, there were MSN groups like atheists vs. God, etc., and it was all about the argument. As the years have gone by, it seems more and more that popular atheism, or neo-atheism has become like a religion and a church all on its own. It even has mega-pastors like Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher and the like. Even this group takes in donations now. It used to be about the debate, but the dogmatic nature of neo-atheism, the intollerance, the anger, the attacks, the cause, and even the basically left-wing morality has become a kind of fundamentalism.
The Christian Church is losing it's grip on society. I mean, really, for the most part it has no authority over anyone anymore. And it deserves to go extinct. But in its wake it produces all kinds of alternate religions to fill the vacuum, and one of those is the religion that forms in opposition to the Church--atheism.
Philosophies tend to turn into religions after awhile. Atheism was a philosophy, now it's much more like a religion. The Christians had a fish, the atheists have geek-chic glasses. The Christians had baptism, atheists have tatoos. Christians had Billy Graham; atheists have Richard Dawkins.
I can't get into a Christian forum anymore with my ideas. They ban me instantly--no question. Over the years, the atheists have become less and less tolerant as well.
So, I fully expect to be banned. I actually didn't think I'd last this long. I initially intended just to visit blogs as you typically can't be banned from them unless they moderate comments which kills the blog.
So, fire your reputation points. Break your own rules with your insults--no different than Christians do. Try to be different by being the same, and I'm just going to be me. In fact, I'm not going to go out of my way to be polite anymore. I'm just going to be me.
--Edward
As for these reputation points. If they are meant to be a way you can all get together and ban me from your group after I collect enough of them, by all means just do it now. I think it's pathetic, but I'm actually a little proud of being in the red.
Actually, I fully expect to be banned. I don't know why you'd want me in here anyway. It used to be all about debate, there were MSN groups like atheists vs. God, etc., and it was all about the argument. As the years have gone by, it seems more and more that popular atheism, or neo-atheism has become like a religion and a church all on its own. It even has mega-pastors like Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher and the like. Even this group takes in donations now. It used to be about the debate, but the dogmatic nature of neo-atheism, the intollerance, the anger, the attacks, the cause, and even the basically left-wing morality has become a kind of fundamentalism.
The Christian Church is losing it's grip on society. I mean, really, for the most part it has no authority over anyone anymore. And it deserves to go extinct. But in its wake it produces all kinds of alternate religions to fill the vacuum, and one of those is the religion that forms in opposition to the Church--atheism.
Philosophies tend to turn into religions after awhile. Atheism was a philosophy, now it's much more like a religion. The Christians had a fish, the atheists have geek-chic glasses. The Christians had baptism, atheists have tatoos. Christians had Billy Graham; atheists have Richard Dawkins.
I can't get into a Christian forum anymore with my ideas. They ban me instantly--no question. Over the years, the atheists have become less and less tolerant as well.
So, I fully expect to be banned. I actually didn't think I'd last this long. I initially intended just to visit blogs as you typically can't be banned from them unless they moderate comments which kills the blog.
So, fire your reputation points. Break your own rules with your insults--no different than Christians do. Try to be different by being the same, and I'm just going to be me. In fact, I'm not going to go out of my way to be polite anymore. I'm just going to be me.
--Edward
